Frankie Boyle sues The Mirror over racist claims...

[sandyRoe]

Can't let things like that go unchallenged. He has his good name to protect.

http://uk.news.yahoo....-libel-132306345.html

[tonyav]

Hope he loses, it'll cost him a mint.

[DTCwordfan]

Shame they didn't arrest him while he was in Court for the McCann suite of jokes as being publically offensive.

[boxtops]

Hmm, how he's going to get out of saying he doesn't make racist jokes will be interesting.

[Zeuhl]

Personally I thought he was quite good singing that 'Les Mis' song on that simon cowell show even though he did seem to misunderstand what it was about

[DTCwordfan]

short memory that he has:

http://www.dailymail....ck-Frankie-Boyle.html

[sandyRoe]

How long has it been since someone was awarded a farthing damages?

[Zeuhl]

From the Mail link:

<Channel 4 executives allowed the comedian to use two of the most racially offensive terms in the English language during his show Tramadol Nights. >

using racially offensive terms doesn't necessarily mean one is a 'racist' especially when used acting out a role - otherwise we might have to reassess Warren Mitchell

[boxtops]

That was "then" though, zeuhl - surely Alf Garnett would be too un-PC for airing in a new programme these days...

[DTCwordfan]

Tiny Rowlands and the Grocer of Knightsbridge, £1 paid from Tiny, both sides to pick up their own costs comes to mind.

[Zeuhl]

Maybe boxtops

But even so, but even then a person had to be pretty t'ick to assume Mitchell (or Speight) were racists just because they used racist language to make their point.

[tonyav]

Don't forget the TV comedy '' Love Thy Neighbor '', Zeuhl.

[dotty.]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTMv5s82uqQ&feature=related

[sandyRoe]

Do we not see actors, such as Warren Michell, and comedians as very different? Was Bernard Manning, for example, a totally different person, without an ounce of racism in him, once he'd left the stage?

[boxtops]

was he, sandy?

[sir.prize]

Bernard Manning wasn't racist. Remember what colour the horses were at his funeral?

[owdhamer]

Should be interesting when it reaches court, two showers of shyte slugging it out.I blame the midwife she threw the wrong bits away when Boyle was born.

[sandyRoe]

He may have been. Didn't I read that he went and did charity work in a hostel for homeless Caribbean people in central Manchester.

[Zeuhl]

surely the key decision is whether the use of the language is intended to propogate the view that a particular race is inferior to others

<racist - a person with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others>

I would judge that Garnett and LTN were both presenting the racist as a figure of ridicule

How Boyle was using 'racist language' i don't know but was he demonstrating or encouraging a view of racial inferiority?

[sir.prize]

Boyle used the N and P words when referring to overseas people. Sounds racist to me.

[emmie]

selective memory, i hope he loses.